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jarekm3

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 2

KDE not starting

I've problem with KDE. On clean installed arch 0.8 and 0.7.2 KDE not start as user.

startx gives

startkde: Starting up...
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 302:  2373 Segmentation fault      ksplash --nodcop
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 336:  2375 Segmentation fault      LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 363:  2378 Segmentation fault      kwrapper ksmserver $KDEWM
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Login from kdm also not works. In kdm.log I have

QSettings: error creating /tmp/2049372133/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/2049372133/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/2049372133/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/2049372133/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/2049372133/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/2049372133/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty

On root kde works fine.

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 683

Re: KDE not starting

Is it possible that there is something wrong with /tmp, e.g. with its permissions?

jarekm3

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 2

Re: KDE not starting

I don't think so. I do chown -R for user and /tmp has permissions drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4,0K tmp

When I starting as user on console dcopserver and ksplash I get segmentation fault.

On my old Arch, that I update from version 0.5 or 0.6 in kdm.log also is

QSettings: error creating /tmp/1339739184/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/1339739184/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty

but kde work on user.

I don't know if it's important but I install from base cd.

Last edited by jarekm3 (2007-01-27 21:32:51)

thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 102

Re: KDE not starting

I've got the same problem. I just updated a computer which hasn't been updated in the past 2 months. Even when I use the kdemod-packages, the error remains.

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,694

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Re: KDE not starting

Try "pacman -R kde" and remove KDE.
Then do "pacman -Sy kde" and re-install. Perhaps re-installing will get whatever files you may not have gotten the first time and fix your installation.

R

thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 102

Re: KDE not starting

I already did, but it didn't solve the problem. Even the qt library has been reinstalled, but I still get segmentation faults.

thorstenhirsch

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Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 102

Re: KDE not starting

[SOLVED] Hey, I've found the cause for all the segfaults! This thread helped me. After removing nvidia and nvidia-utils, there were still 2 files in /usr/lib/tls:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   25  9. Aug 2006  libnvidia-tls.so.1 -> libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8762
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2324  9. Aug 2006  libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8762

I had to remove them manually before reinstalling nvidia and nvidia-utils. Now the segfaults are gone, yippieh!

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 683

Re: KDE not starting

Good to hear that you found a solution.

Could someone submit a pubreport? This must be an error in an Arch package.